More or Less: Behind the Stats

Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk....

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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

Do illegal migrants receive more in benefits than pensioners? Was Energy Secretary Ed Miliband...

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Who pays when trade wars heat up?

Donald Trump wants new tariffs on goods coming into the US, describing them as a tax on other...

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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

Do half of children in Wales have special educational needs? Are permanent exclusions at the...

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Where have Cuba’s people gone?

The Cuban government has announced that their population has fallen by 10% in two years – just...

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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

The claim we all swallow 5.5 grams of microplastic each week – the same as the weight of a credit...

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Are companies making more money from their customers?

Recent reports claimed the average global mark-up, the difference between the price of production...

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Is planet Earth getting greener?

Canadian psychologist and culture war commentator Jordan Peterson says planet Earth has got 20%...

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Does a language die every two weeks?

Researchers have catalogued 7,164 languages spoken around the world - some are used daily by...

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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

The idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters has been repeated...

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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

Is climate change making turbulence more dangerous for people taking flights around the world?...

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Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

How can tennis star Roger Federer have won only 54% of the points he played, but been the best...

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The magic of trigonometry

You might have found it boring in school maths classes, but Matt Parker thinks we should all...

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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

Are Labour right about employment? Are the Conservatives right about cutting NHS managers? Are...

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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

he US has been portrayed as in the grip of a maternal mortality crisis. In contrast to most...

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Election claims and erection claims

Are Labour right about the Liz Truss effect on mortgages? Are the Conservatives right about...

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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?

So-called “pig butchering” scams take billions of dollars from people around the globe. But do...

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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

Will Conservative policies raise mortgages by £4800, as Labour claim? Are primary school kids in...

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Shakespeare’s maths

AWilliam Shakespeare might well rank as the most influential writer in the English language. But...

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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

What’s going on with the dodgy bar charts that political parties put on constituency campaign...

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